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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | New citizenship law in India 'fundamentally discriminatory': UN human rights office

New citizenship law in India 'fundamentally discriminatory': UN human rights office

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published Published on Dec 14, 2019   modified Modified on Dec 14, 2019
-United Nations News

A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.”

The amendment to the Citizenship Act gives priority to Hindus, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians resident in India before 2014, but excludes Muslims, including minority sects.

“Although India’s broader naturalization laws remain in place, these amendments will have a discriminatory effect on people’s access to nationality”, Jeremy Laurence, a spokesperson with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said on Friday.

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United Nations News, 13 December, 2019, https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053511


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